Your Say: Money speaks louder than votes

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MEGADONORS

Americans always had the best government money could buy. Now, thanks to "Citizens United," the Supreme Court decision that ruled corporations have a right to political speech, it's legal to buy off politicians.

David Rosse

That's the way it has worked forever, in many elections, including school class president and dog catcher. I don't think it's perfect, but it's the way life works.

Jeff Morris

Our government is now for sale to the highest bidder. You might agree with the person buying this week, but you might not agree with the next buyer. What prevents foreign interests from buying our government through a straw buyer?

Steve Silversmith

JUDICIAL ELECTIONS

Here is the problem with people electing judges: How do we fairly determine if a judge ruled on personal bias or simply ruled in a manner we didn't agree with?

For judges who are elected, there is no way they can stay truly impartial and not think about those who supported their candidacies.

Laniece Darcel

Certainly, we would want judges who are impartial and well-versed in the law.

Yet no one in a position of authority should be beyond accountability and, if necessary, removal. But, how to get there?

John Barbieri

If today's breed of justices actually answered to the law instead of legislating from the bench, this would be an easier question to answer. Our legal system is broken without the influence of elections.

Al Melvin

The politicization of the judicial process is the last thing you want. Leave the justices alone.

Michael Kent

Letter to the editor:

Americans imagine falsely that their vote counts. Money and power count; that's all the election is about. Greedy corporations fund government servants to direct military forces to invade poor countries and steal their resources.

If America were an actual democracy, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson would have been on stage to debate President Obama and Mitt Romney at the corporate-owned TV media circus shows.

Joseph Young; Reading, Mass.